Allopathic Effect of Garlic Plant to Improve Potato (Solanum Tuberosum L.) Rotting Plant Warning

Potatoes are an economically important plant worldwide, one of the problems of growing potatoes plant is the delay in the root germination process may 7 weeks, and the use of plant hormones as a type of growth stimulants that help in root germination and elongation is considered expensive and costly materials with limited use, in addition to the fact that they may cause various environmental problems on the one hand, and on the other hand ,growing the plant in the soil, parasites and worms that cause a loss in the plant crop and productivity. In addition to the death of parts of the plant and its loss or delay in root growth. Garlic is plant known for its chemical composition that prevents the growth of germs and antioxidants that help the plant grow by removing of ROH, in this experiments aqueous extracts of garlic gloves were used at concentrations of (0.0,10.25,50,75 g/L) by watering the soil that was planted in potato tubers. The results obtained through the experiment showed that garlic plant greatly stimulated root germination in potato tubers and shortened the time for germination. It was noted that concentration 25% was the best among the concentration used and the result was significant growth at p≤0.05 by 75%. compared to the control treatment through quantitative growth in number, length, thickness and number of lateral branches of the roots in addition to an improvement in the fresh and dry weight of the roots, it was also noted through the results that there was an increase in the activity of antioxidant enzymes.